What's wrong with this Bourne shell script?

[Scott Yelich ODU]

>: 1)  I would not do it in perl-- I hate it when people ask about bourne
>:     shell and other people reply with perl....  
>I refrain from labeling this as Irrational Prejudice, but it sure looks
>like it.

>In the second place, Andy asked if there was a better way.  Even if *you*
>don't think it is a better way, you shouldn't try to keep other people
>from helping.

I never said it wasn't a valid or even possibly better--
I simply said that when people ask for SH and other people reply with PERL,
something must have been lost in the translation...

If I want SH and I ask for SH and I get PERL... I wonder...

Perhaps Andy did ask for a better way-- others haven't.
Yet, what makes PERL a better way?  Especially for some of these one liners!

>I hate it when people think we're espousing Perl as the One True Way.
>Perl is just another tool.  Use where appropriate.  Don't use where not.

Perl is another tool.  I am attempting to decipher it.... but when someone
asks me for SH, I give them SH.

If they ask for a better way, I usually wait for you to respond with Perl.

> Those are my Irrational Prejudices.

Granted.
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